DCML digest, Vol 1 #270 - 4 msgs

HorizonHse@aol.com HorizonHse at aol.com
Tue Sep 26 04:13:12 CEST 2000


Hi, all,

You may be interested to know that Money Magazine has finally recognized the 
financial wizardry of Scrooge McDuck.

In their October 2000 issue (page 28), they "wondered what financial tips 
could be gleaned from the character's misery existence. After all, since his 
debut in 1947, Scorrge McDuck managed to amass 'umpteencentrifugillion 
dollars and 16 cents" - or enough money to fill a three-acre money bin to a 
depth of 79 feet (actually now at 98 feet). Surely his insights are of 
interest.

"Here's a sampling:

"Love your money. Not for what it buys but for the sheer physical pleasure it 
bestows. 'I like to dive around in it like a porpoise, burrow through it like 
a gopher and thss it up and let it hit me on the head,' Scrooge once said.

"Waste not, want not. 'Thrift is the secret of my success,' Scrooge reveals 
in panel after panel. He spurns the newsboy because he can find a paper for 
free in the park, counsels Donald to 'never put your stomach ahead of your 
purse' and tells his clerks to use both sides of the paper 'and the edges 
too."

"The trickle-back theory. The backbone of his success. Scrooge comes to the 
agonizing conclusion that is would be cheaper to spend his money than build 
another bin to hold it. He hires Donald to do the dirty work. But since 
Scrooge himself owns the hotels where Donald stays, the restaurants he eats 
in and the mines that produced the ore for the jewelry he buys - the money 
return, making him richer than ever."

Not bad advice at all for acquiring financial wealth, if that's your goal.




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